Classification
noun
The action or process of arranging or putting people or things into groups or categories based on their similarities.
Books in libraries are sorted based on their classification.
Often appears as...
- library classification
- scientific classification
noun
The system of putting something in a category based on its qualities, characteristics or similar features.
Taxonomic classification is the method used by scientist to categorize animals in biology.
Often appears as...
- taxonomic classification
- biological classification
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Academic
noun
The level of secrecy assigned to information or data that restricts its distribution.
The government documents have a top secret classification.
Often appears as...
- top secret classification
- confidential classification
noun
The action or process of arranging or putting people or things into groups or categories based on their similarities.
Books in libraries are sorted based on their classification.
Often appears as...
- library classification
- scientific classification
noun
The system of putting something in a category based on its qualities, characteristics or similar features.
Taxonomic classification is the method used by scientist to categorize animals in biology.
Often appears as...
- taxonomic classification
- biological classification
Usage tips
Academic
noun
The level of secrecy assigned to information or data that restricts its distribution.
The government documents have a top secret classification.
Often appears as...
- top secret classification
- confidential classification
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Library Use
In libraries, 'classification' is often about organizing books by subject and author.
She found the novel by its classification under 'M' for mystery.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Similar
'Classification' groups things that share characteristics, like sorting fruits by color.
Their classification grouped all red fruits together.
Pro Tip 3/3Hierarchy Unrelated
Classification isn't about creating a hierarchy; it's about grouping, not ranking.
Classifying animals doesn't mean one is better than the other.
Pro Tip 1/3Library Use
In libraries, 'classification' is often about organizing books by subject and author.
She found the novel by its classification under 'M' for mystery.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Similar
'Classification' groups things that share characteristics, like sorting fruits by color.
Their classification grouped all red fruits together.
Pro Tip 3/3Hierarchy Unrelated
Classification isn't about creating a hierarchy; it's about grouping, not ranking.
Classifying animals doesn't mean one is better than the other.
Pro Tip 1/3Library Use
In libraries, 'classification' is often about organizing books by subject and author.
She found the novel by its classification under 'M' for mystery.
Pro Tip 2/3Group Similar
'Classification' groups things that share characteristics, like sorting fruits by color.
Their classification grouped all red fruits together.
Pro Tip 3/3Hierarchy Unrelated
Classification isn't about creating a hierarchy; it's about grouping, not ranking.
Classifying animals doesn't mean one is better than the other.
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and our computer program images, and count how often they're right. But all these images are past images. They've all been biopsied to make sure we had the correct classification. This one wasn't. This one was actually done at Stanford by one of our collaborators. The story goes that our collaborator, who is a world-famous dermatologist, one of the three best, apparently,
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How computers learn to...
to tell the difference between a cat and a dog would be almost impossible, even with the significant advance in the state of artificial intelligence. Now we can do it at a level greater than 99 percent accuracy. This is called image classification -- give it an image, put a label to that image --
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How did clouds get their...
Howard identified seven cloud types, but these have since been expanded to ten, cloud nine being the towering cumulonimbus thunder cloud, which is probably why being on cloud nine means to be on top of the world. Howard's classification had an immediate international impact.
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Electrical experiments...
And often they'll come back with the classification that things that move tend to have brains. And that's absolutely correct. Our nervous system evolved because it is electrical. It's fast, so we can quickly respond to stimuli in the world and move if we need to.
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Supervolcanoes 101 PIPE...
They're usually characterized as large depressions in the ground, called calderas, located above multiple openings in the Earth's crust. In terms of eruptions, supervolcanoes explode at a magnitude of eight, the highest and most violent classification
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Why our IQ levels are...
of how much it would benefit them to people who confront a very complex world, and it's a world where we've had to develop new mental habits, new habits of mind. And these include things like clothing that concrete world with classification,
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Data: Art that informs PIPE...
sort of perform for me so we can expose the clicks and swipes of users all over the world so what I do is I take the metadata from the Zooniverse and I count all of the users and I count all over the classifications and I for every
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Stars 101 PIPE National...
It is this chemical reaction, thermonuclear fusion that generates a star's heat and energy and causes it to shine. Stars are categorized by a number of characteristics. One of these classifications is by surface temperature
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Dian Fossey Narrates Her...
perhaps because he has lost all of his peers or maybe because he is in that special classification of young males digit has been remarkably of tolerant toward observers and even appears to
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The problem with...
Suppose they rejected an 18th-century classification system and incorporated instead the most advanced knowledge of human genetic diversity and unity,
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What AI is -- and isn't...
and our computer program images, and count how often they're right. But all these images are past images. They've all been biopsied to make sure we had the correct classification. This one wasn't. This one was actually done at Stanford by one of our collaborators. The story goes that our collaborator, who is a world-famous dermatologist, one of the three best, apparently,
Video examples
How computers learn to...
to tell the difference between a cat and a dog would be almost impossible, even with the significant advance in the state of artificial intelligence. Now we can do it at a level greater than 99 percent accuracy. This is called image classification -- give it an image, put a label to that image --
Video examples
How did clouds get their...
Howard identified seven cloud types, but these have since been expanded to ten, cloud nine being the towering cumulonimbus thunder cloud, which is probably why being on cloud nine means to be on top of the world. Howard's classification had an immediate international impact.
Video examples
Electrical experiments...
And often they'll come back with the classification that things that move tend to have brains. And that's absolutely correct. Our nervous system evolved because it is electrical. It's fast, so we can quickly respond to stimuli in the world and move if we need to.
Video examples
Supervolcanoes 101 PIPE...
They're usually characterized as large depressions in the ground, called calderas, located above multiple openings in the Earth's crust. In terms of eruptions, supervolcanoes explode at a magnitude of eight, the highest and most violent classification
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Why our IQ levels are...
of how much it would benefit them to people who confront a very complex world, and it's a world where we've had to develop new mental habits, new habits of mind. And these include things like clothing that concrete world with classification,
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Data: Art that informs PIPE...
sort of perform for me so we can expose the clicks and swipes of users all over the world so what I do is I take the metadata from the Zooniverse and I count all of the users and I count all over the classifications and I for every
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Stars 101 PIPE National...
It is this chemical reaction, thermonuclear fusion that generates a star's heat and energy and causes it to shine. Stars are categorized by a number of characteristics. One of these classifications is by surface temperature
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Dian Fossey Narrates Her...
perhaps because he has lost all of his peers or maybe because he is in that special classification of young males digit has been remarkably of tolerant toward observers and even appears to
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The problem with...
Suppose they rejected an 18th-century classification system and incorporated instead the most advanced knowledge of human genetic diversity and unity,
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Cheech Marin
American Comedian
I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada.
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Michael Hayden
American Public Servant
My life experience confirms that the U.S. government frequently overclassifies data. But that's a stronger argument for not dumping large volumes of government traffic on an unclassified personal server than it is a justification for retroactively challenging classification decisions.
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J. Philippe Rushton
Canadian Psychologist
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
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Christopher A. Wray
American Public Servant
Where protection of certain sensitive information is well-founded, I remain committed to upholding the laws and longstanding policies governing classification and public release.
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Geoffrey Hinton
British Psychologist
Take any old classification problem where you have a lot of data, and it's going to be solved by deep learning. There's going to be thousands of applications of deep learning.
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Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.
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George P. Shultz
American Public Servant
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
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Boyd Rice
American Artist
To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.
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George Henry Lewes
English Philosopher
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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Cheech Marin
American Comedian
I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada.
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Michael Hayden
American Public Servant
My life experience confirms that the U.S. government frequently overclassifies data. But that's a stronger argument for not dumping large volumes of government traffic on an unclassified personal server than it is a justification for retroactively challenging classification decisions.
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J. Philippe Rushton
Canadian Psychologist
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
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Christopher A. Wray
American Public Servant
Where protection of certain sensitive information is well-founded, I remain committed to upholding the laws and longstanding policies governing classification and public release.
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Geoffrey Hinton
British Psychologist
Take any old classification problem where you have a lot of data, and it's going to be solved by deep learning. There's going to be thousands of applications of deep learning.
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Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.
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George P. Shultz
American Public Servant
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
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Boyd Rice
American Artist
To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.
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George Henry Lewes
English Philosopher
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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